I was wrong. This is environmentalism’s biggest problem.
The IPCC Report has come and gone and it seems that it has now largely disappeared from the news cycle. It is likely that, in the coming years, the pace of carbon cuts will quicken, and there is a chance that the 1.5°C will be met. Convincing people to get on board, though, is much more difficult. Here’s the key problem, and a potential solution.
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3 min readOct 26, 2018
Let’s think for a moment about what 1.5°C of warming will mean for the planet. 48cm of sea level rises. 16% increase in the number of heatwave days. Complete meltdown of the Arctic ice.
The problem with environmentalism is that this means nothing for most people. We need to begin equating this to real-world problems, without fear-mongering.
(It would also be quite useful to give them credible but simple explanations of climate science, but that’s just wishful thinking.)
So, how exactly does one go about this?
Well, firstly, the environment must be linked to the economy. So let’s start with the prediction that 1.5 degrees of warming would cause an 8% GDP loss globally. This is…
